Hi, I’m Sam.

I’m a Filipino-American therapist shaped by my own experiences of culture, identity, and belonging. I bring those parts of myself into this work with a deep belief that there is no single “right” way to be a person.

My approach is relational, embodied, and liberation-oriented. That means we’ll get curious not only about what you’re experiencing, but where it came from - your relationships, your body, your history, your identities, and the larger systems you’ve had to navigate. Not everything we struggle with began within us, and healing doesn’t have to mean learning how to better fit into spaces that were never built with us in mind.

In our work, you can expect warmth, curiosity, honesty, and room for humor. I’m not interested in being a blank slate across from you. I believe genuine human connection is part of the work, and I want therapy to be a place where you can bring the messy, contradictory, tender, awkward, deeply human parts of yourself without judgment.

My work draws from attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, somatic approaches, and a sex-positive lens. Rather than trying to “fix” you, we’ll explore the patterns that have helped you survive, what your body and relationships might be communicating, and what becomes possible when you have more choice in how you move through the world.